Fitting for hot-water-radiator connections.



P. H. CARLYON, JR.

FITTING FOR HOT WATER RADIATOR CONNECTIONS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE4. 1912.

1,141,61 1, Patented June 1, 1915.

INVENTOR THE NORRIS PETERS COvv PHoTc-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

PHILIP scam-Jon, an, or punitlmgnnw YORK.

FITTING FOB HOT-WATER-RADIATOR CONNECTIONS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1915.

Application filed June 4, 1912. Serial No. 701,594.

To all whom'it may concern: 7

Be it known that l, PHILIP H. CARLYoN, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 106 West Fourth street, in the city of Dunkirk, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Fitting for Hot-VVatenRadiator Connections, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to hot water radiator systems, and has for its objects the swinging of either end of the fit-- ting nearer to or farther from the fioor, as the case may be, to permit of the connecting of the inlet and outlet pipes thereto without trapping, retarding or shutting off, the inlet or outletfiow of the water to the radiator, the further object of permitting the connecting of the inlet pipe to either end of said fitting and consequently the outlet pipe to the other end; also the further object that the said fitting can be used with any ordinary valve and may also be used without any valves. Also the further object of constructing the device on an arc of a circle is to permit the screwing of the fitting when in position on the radiator, to the right to raise hole 5 and lower hole 6, or by screwing, to the left to lower hole 5 and raising hole 6, without causing a space or'air pocket, in the high end of the fitting that would retard the circulation of the water when in use.

In the past all fittings which permit of connecting the inlet and outlet flow of water to and from hot water systems on the same end of the radiator, it has always been necessary to have the ends of the hot, and cold water pipes, which are to be connected to the radi ator, project-the same height from the floor, or surface, on which the radiator stands thereby requiring great carein installing the pipes, to have the ends project exactly the same height above the floor, and particularly so if it be a cement or tile floor, or causing great inconvenience in adjusting the isiaid pipes after being cemented in, the tile oor.

I overcome the above objections by'pro-.

vicling a fitting so constructed that the raising or lowering of either end will not interfere with the flow of water to or from the radiator, thereby eliminating the care heretofore necessary in placing the endsof the hot and cold water pipes exactly the same distance above the floor, or other sur face, on which the radiators are placed.

I attain these objects by the mechanism, or fitting, shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation in section of Fig. 3 taken on the curved line XY. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same fitting, Fig. 3 is a plan view of the face or surface A on Fig. 2, and F i 4 is a section of a part of said fitting taken on line A B inFig. 2.

Similar letters and figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views. In the drawings, 1 indicates the body of the fitting having cast thereon a threaded nipple or projection 2 and bosses 3 and so cored outas to form the chambers C and D in said fitting with the partition 4; between them thus dividing the hot water fitting into two separate chambers. The fitting 1 is provided with tapped holes 5 and 6 in the bosses 3 thus permitting the fitting to be attached to the inlet and outlet water pipes and at the same time keeping separate the incoming and outgoing water while in said fitting. The partition 4 projecting beyond the nipple 2 separates or deflects the incoming and outgoing water in the radiator to which said fitting is attached.

In the use and application of said fitting it will be seen that the threaded nipple 2 can be screwed in and attached to the radiator thus forming a pivot. or center, on which the remainder of the fitting revolves. It will be noticed by Fig. 3 that the fitting is a segment of a circle and the center inlet water pipe hole 5 and outlet water pipe hole 6 are also located on a circular line. As heretofore stated. the inlet water pipe hole 5 may be used for the incoming or outgoing water whichever the user desires. It will be further noticed that the inlet wa ter pipe hole 5 being located to the one side of the nipple 9. with said nipple 2 as a pivot the fitting 1 may be turned, or rotated, on said nipple 2 so as to raise the inlet pipe hole 5 which may be on either side, or lower the outgoing water hole 6, which may be on either side as desired without trapping, or cutting off the incoming or outgoing water, and without interfering with the circulationofthe water in any manner whatever. The hot water from the boiler can pass through the pipe opening 5 into the chamberC and through said chamber G into the radiator and after passing through the radiator pass out of the cham ber D and through the outlet pipe hole6'.

When the above described fitting is in po sition on the radiator and pipe hole 5 and a pipe hole 6 are on a level horizontal line;

ring pipe hole 0 with each other, the fitting may be screwed to the right thereby raising pipe hole 5 and lowering pipe hole 6, or screwing to the left thereby raising pipe hole 6 and lowerso as to make a difierence of one inch in the height of said holes 5' and'6 without causing the top side of hole 5 when screwed to the right, and the top side of hole 6 when screwed to the left,

. also be used withoutvalves should occasion require it.' Numerous changes in minor de- 7 tail of'theconstruction of' the above de-[ scribed steam fitting may be made Within the intended scope of my invention;

Having thus described my invention what I claimas new and desire to cover by Letters Patent is: r

11A radiator fitting having in one wall a passage divided bya partition, and'in the opposite Wall two passages spaced from each a other, the latter passages being so located with. reference to the first-namedpassage that when the partition is in a verticalplane the axes of the two passages will lie belowf-a horizontal plane passing through the axis of the-first named passage. 7 a T 2. A hollow T-shaped radiator fitting having a substantially central passage in one wall and a plurality of passagesin theo'p'- posite wall; the axes of all the passages lying on the arc of a circle. v

PHILIP H. CARLYON, Jig

Witnesses: V

J. L. HURLBERT, NELLIE GRANeow.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. c. 

